Color Profile Questionby Adam Davies 1 month agoTo be very brief, This is not exactly an AE question...but bear with me I am in post-production on a 15-minute stop-motion animation. lots of issues and bad decisions along the way, but I'd love some

highlights in RAW shot on 5D2by Enginn Heima 1 month agoI tried posting this on the Canon DSLR forum, but I'm thinking I might be closer to solving my problem here, so here it goes: I'm having problems with highlights in a shot that was shot in Raw mode wi

Fixed stroke width of the shapesby Orkhan Huseynov 1 month agoHello, I have vector illustration with stroke and fill. I need to scale them in my animation, but keep stroke width the same. Illustration has many groups of objects in it. And when I am scaling the s

Audition Cs6, Error when using reverbby tada Chen 1 month ago Hello, I am facing a problem when i edit some music in audition. When I add a reverb to the track the windows pop up like the above and the software quit automatically. I tried for many times some ef

Re: Audition Cs6, Error when using reverbby Chris Wright 1 month agoyou have to apply the effect whereas it pre-renders it on the timeline. your cpu is not fast enough for realtime playback. In the Editor panel, Effects Rack, or Mixer, click the Pre-Render Track butto

Wireless Microphone System w/ GoPro!by Aaqib Usman 1 month agoI have been using a GoPro to shoot mobile walking architecture tours with a guide. All of this is one long shot, no edits, no cuts. For the moment, I am using the Audio-Technica ATR288W VHF Battery-Po

Re: Wireless Microphone System w/ GoPro!by Chris Wright 1 month agoI haven't personally used it but you can always split the difference and get the ME2 Lavalier Microphone from the G3 for $140 if your existing wireless device functions adequately. or $229 Tram TR-50

how to export pure black from AE?by Joseph Lewis 1 month agoHow do I export pure black from AE using h264 codec and be able watch the same superblack via Youtube or VLC player This is what I do... I create a new comp, add a solid with black and export using Me

Re: how to export pure black from AE?by Chris Wright 1 month agowalter is right about misconfigured players outputing 0-255 or 16-235, but you can try burning in the color management with AE's effect- utility-color profile converter. try rec.0-255 and 16-235 and s

Matching Up Fs7, A7s and 60Dby Sascha Engel 1 month agoHi Everybody, I will shoot in two days an item for the German TV. I have to match up my main Camera a SONY FS7 with two B-Rolls: a SONY A7s and a CANON 60D. What are the best settings on each camera t

Walk cycle sliding feet problemsby Spiridon Mekas 1 month agoHello! I'm compositing an animation film and i'm constantly having to deal with sliding feet on walk cycles. Now, i know how to manually adjust position of the floor, frame by frame so that the moveme

Re: Walk cycle sliding feet problemsby Chris Wright 1 month agoTry posting in expressions forum. Pretty simple since the person is stationary, the ground just needs to move the opposite distance of the leg pushing away. A simple script where when the leg touches

Any tricks to fix over-sharpened video?by Perry Kroll 6 months agoI'm working on a project with a ton of mixed media sources, and some clips were shot on a Canon Rebel that unfortunately had sharpening turned up all the way in the shooting profile. Anyone ever come

slog2 = 8-bits in 14 stops?by toke lahti 2 months agoSorry if this is already discussed here, but I couldn't find anything. I'm just wondering when comparing to "normal" video DR, does slog2 help so much, that even if you have only half the bits per sto

Re: slog2 = 8-bits in 14 stops?by Chris Wright 2 months agothere is no such thing realistically useful as 14 f-stops in 8 bit(that is why the big boys use 10 bit or higher). Sure, you might get some detail, but unless you're shooting raw, in color correction,

DNG's from MLV's with Ae Pr and Resolveby George Goodman 2 months agoHaving premier and resolve round trip is no problem. But if I want to do any compositing or general after effects work, I have no way to retain the flexibility of the DNG. At best, I can render out to

Audio tricks for video editors?by Zopiro da Tracia 3 months agoI'm a somewhat experienced video editor who has at most of my career had an audio guy nearby to work on sound design, effects and cleanup. For some freelance projects, however, there's nobody to do th

Re: Audio tricks for video editors?by Chris Wright 2 months agosounds like you should focus on broadcast specs ebu and ITU-R https: tech.ebu.ch loudness if you don't want pro-tools, I'd recommend adobe audition, not only is it integrated heavily into adobe produc

Water coloringby Gigi Marzo 3 months agoHi! I have to film a scene about water. I'll try to explain better: I have to film a boy (and after a girl) in bathtub, so I cannot color physically in the narrowest sense the water with color pigment

Re: Water coloringby Dave LaRonde 3 months agoBesides, who says you have to use dyes or food coloring to color the water Soft drinks come in almost every color of the rainbow. Dave LaRonde Promotion Producer KGAN (CBS) & KFXA (Fox) Cedar Rapids,

After Effects on VM serversby Michael Estepp 3 months agoHello, I runnning After Effects on a virtual server, 10 gig line. It seems when I kick off render batches, it crashes out every time. Are there any known issues with this set up Thanks

Re: After Effects on VM serversby Chris Wright 3 months agoimporting only tiff image sequences for rendering would be a huge help in discovering if quicktime is the culprit, especially if the sizes are huge(over 3gb) and it doesn't crash(your network can hand

Sweeten on camera audio suggestions?by Kevin Carlson 3 months agoHi, We are shooting DSLRs with flash audio recorder, and we mistakenly didn't hit record on audio soon enough. Anyone have suggestions for audio post from on camera mic I think we did have the Rode sh

Re: Sweeten on camera audio suggestions?by Chris Wright 3 months agowas there alot of room noise denoise spectrum analyzer. may possibly need noise gate if your levels are low. was there alot of reverb from the room iZotopte de-reverb sweeten by using a 10 point Param

AE CC2014 and GPU cardsby David McLasty 3 months agoI have a question on the multiple GPU support under CC2014. I know Premiere can support multiple GPUs for export, but does it have any effect with timeline rendering in AE I have a Quadro K5000 in my

Panick Strickenby teddy gregg 3 months agoHi everyone. I hope you are well. I have been shooting my first scenes for my Honours Project. The scenes are shot indoors at my house. I shot them yesterday and although they looked fine on preview s

Re: Panick Strickenby Chris Wright 3 months agoif you're going for image quality, you want a very low iso like 640 or less or you'll have a lot of grain. Also, you probably need more light. You can reflect more light in there with bounce boards if

S-log 2 ???by Paul Rijkaard 4 months agoHello I am struggling to find online resources to help define a suitable grading workflow. I am using footage shot on sony FS700 with s-log2 profile. For the sake of offline I have been working with p

Re: S-log 2 ???by Chris Wright 3 months agoif you don't want to damage the quality in the pipeline, consider luts instead of icc profiles. pre-grade how you want it and pass the lut around. For final master, eventually it will have to go to th

Film out to 35mm tests.by Fred van Stry 5 months agoHi, I hope Im posting this in the right forum section. I've been trying to look up any tests of digital footage being transferred onto film online. The only things I could check were movies like Dance

Re: Film out to 35mm tests.by Chris Wright 4 months agocall fotokem. they are really nice and would prolly help you more than you know. they work with hollywood down to undergrad student filmmakers. http: fotokem.com services film_laboratory.php

Furyby Scott Roberts 4 months agohttps: www.youtube.com watch v=-OGvZoIrXpg I m always surprised when a big budget Hollywood war movie comes along, and it tries to do things in really unconventional ways. Take this film for example,

Flickering Lamp-Postby Javed Ali 4 months agoI need to make several lamp-posts flicker. However, since the scenes are at night, the lamp-posts are powered on. Plus, the posts are completely in frame meaning you see the lamp up high, the post, th

Re: Flickering Lamp-Postby Chris Wright 4 months agoeach part of the image will have to respond to the flicker differently, how far away the light source is, what objects are in the way, how brightly they reflect the light. You'd basically have to have

Sample Rates and Bit Depthby Jennifer Keller 5 months agoI am trying to troubleshoot a problem in a multitrack session of Audition. The length of the file seems to change after exporting the session and the markers are all out of place when I bring it into

Resample WITHOUT changing duration or pitchby jim bachalo 8 months agoI have a number of 96kHz audio files that I need to resample to 48kHz, WITHOUT changing pitch or duration. Is this possible Can anyone tell me how to do it You should follow me on Twitter here. My lat

Ethereal, booming VOby Jess Wellington 5 months agoI am trying to take a VO that was done and make it into this booming ethereal voice. The VO is supposed to be the voice of a seer who is warning people of dangers that lurk ahead. How would I go about

Re: Ethereal, booming VOby Chris Wright 4 months agohttps: forums.creativecow.net readpost 168 858090 after the "warming" spoken about above, you could add 1% chorus effect(voices 1). its the "zeus" effect, hehehe. that should scare the crap out of the

cc simple wire removal tutorialby Rowby Goren 2 years agoHi I am looking for an in-depth tutorials for CC simple wire removal. I want to learn the subtleties, all the features, of the effect. Beyond the Point A and Point B. Most of what I find on Youtube an

Re: cc simple wire removal tutorialby Chris Wright 4 months agosorry, as far as i know, no such AE plugin exists. I don't know why there's no b-spline or bezier plugins, very strange, seems like there would be a huge market for it. Mocha kind of took over that pa

Haze Removal in AE or PP winby Pedro Luz 5 months agoHi! Does anyone knows any plug-in that automatically can remove haze from a video sequence For still photos there are several plug-ins out there but for video I just can't find any. There is one that

Re: Haze Removal in AE or PP winby Chris Wright 5 months agowhat type of haze you could try duplicating the footage ctrl+d when its highlighted then set the top new layer transfer mode (F4 to pop up) to multiply, overlay, or soft. You could try soft, then ctrl